B & W Alpha

[Roedspaetten]

Hi...
Here is a Picture of a very old B & W Alpha Diesel. The engine is in fine condition, it has been overhauled and are now running smootly and waiting to be put into an old ship...
Rgds
Kent

[ray bloomfield]

I shall bear that in mind as I sail on a ideal candidate

[Roedspaetten]

I shall bear that in mind as I sail on a ideal candidate

Hohohoho.... Ray, You naughty man, I hadn?t seen that one comming, especially not from you.... I thought you had a good ship with a modern and perfect engine.... Why would you want an old B & W Alpha-Diesel from way back then in time.. ANd why would you want an old Alpha where you have to start to go down the engine-room every second hour to check and note the temperatures in a book and while you?re down there you have to fetch the oil-can and lubricate all the visible moving parts on the engine.....
This Kind of engine-work stopped more or less years ago when the engine-rooms were made watch-free....
I only put the photo on because it?s an historic engine made on the factury in my hometown, (Frederikshavn). The engine was saved from destruction/recykling by the local maritime Museum. They got it out from the old ship and brought it to the Museum. It was then taken totally apart by the volounteers, (they were all skilled
they are all well-trained professionals trained as machinists , engineers and former chief engineers . They were all the way through the process assisted by the current experts from. Alpha Diesel, which also provided all kinds of special tools and equipment availability. Alpha Diesel also provided the necessary new parts available , free of charge . And had Alpha no longer parts available at the store, so sought the pieces worldwide and / or made the spareparts themselves. And when they started to "re- produce " old mechanical bits , they made just a few extra bits , so that the machine here after the renovation is over, both emerging and works like new. Besides this there are now also a small stock of spare parts for the engine , some of the spare parts all are newly reproduced parts. It's nice when all the forces of good unite to save and renovate old maritime things and preserve them for the future generations to have a chance to see some of the things from when the world was different from the world as the young People know today. And those of us who are getting on in years today may well also pleased to be able to revisit the old and sometimes still working and acting things from the time when we were very young ... In this way, re- experiencing this, we are somehow Young again, sadly it is only in the mind.
Rgds
Kent

[ray bloomfield]

Liken it to going to an art gallery where one can see the great works of art or looking at some weird abstract art and thinking 'wot the hell is that'. Give me the classic any day, engines included.

[pete barc]

alpha Diesel, what a beutifull but dirty noisy engine, i had one in the old Tanker i used to have "Brosund" i took over the tanker in Marstal Denmark from the shipyard Thomsen i Thomsen and they taught me how to work and maintain it, it took about an hour to learn it, we sailed from Marstal to Gibraltar via Plymouth for Bunkers and when we did night work (freshwater supply) in Gibraltar most poeple that lived near the port lost sleep because of the ooompah noise of our Alpha Diesel made, it used to echo off the Rock, therefore breaking the early morning silence. Lovely noisy dirty old Engine.